Aggregate Surendranagar's Dangasia Tangaliya weavers into one GI-protected heritage-textile brand selling stoles, scarves and home linen to D2C and craft-retail buyers. The edge is a genuine GI weave no one else can legally claim.
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Surendranagar holds GI-protected Tangaliya — the raised-bead (daana) weave of the Dangasia community on cotton and wool — but production stays fragmented at subsistence scale with weak market access. The business is one brand: a cooperative of 30-50 weavers producing a small range of contemporary products, GI-tagged and sold direct to customers online, through design stores and at exhibitions. It draws on the district's Tangaliya GI weaving skill and its cotton ginning-and-spinning base. The weave rarely reaches buyers as a branded heritage textile line today, and that branded end is where the better prices are.
The value is in the brand, the designs and the places you sell. The hard parts: preserving authentic Tangaliya technique while adapting palettes and products for modern buyers, ethical and fair engagement with the Dangasia community, GI-compliant labelling and provenance documentation, and the slow grind of building retail and online accounts (expect it to take years). NHDP and DCH fund shared looms, finishing and brand support. Buyers are heritage-textile and slow-fashion D2C labels, design-led home and lifestyle stores, and craft-conscious urban shoppers.
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